Discord breaking, High CPU usage & Extremely Low GPU usage

[Special Eddy]

Specs:

i5-7500
GTX 1060 6GB
12 GB RAM (8x1 & 4x1)
1TB SSD


I have had a real, experience-ruining problem. Whenever I am playing GTAV (I've only noticed it with GTA), I can't use discord; I seem to lose connection so I can't hear what anyone is saying and whatever I say doesn't get transmitted. It doesn't show any kind of error on Discord. I've been trying to figure out the issue; I may have found the problem. Somehow, my task manager states that whenever GTA is running and is the focused window, my CPU is at 100% usage but my GPU rarely reaches 9% usage.

I've changed it in NVIDIA control panel so GTA uses the graphics card & that the V-Sync is adaptive through the panel and not the game. I am running at ~medium settings. I installed the game a couple days after the Diamond Casino Heist was announced and had experienced this problem before and ever since.

GTA runs at normal priority and used to cause even more problems on high priority. Discord usually runs at high priority. I don't have any parked CPUs

I don't know what the problem is help. It bothers me that my friend (with a less powerful PC) can run GTA & discord fine.

Please, someone help me

[Ancient]

Special Eddy původně napsal:

Somehow, my task manager states that whenever GTA is running and is the focused window, my CPU is at 100% usage but my GPU rarely reaches 9% usage.

TM and Windows Game Bar are and have been broken/inaccurate for GPU usage monitoring for a long time. Use literally anything else (Afterburner/Precision/HWMonitor/HWInfo/etc.)

As to discord, I don't use it much anymore (run my own TS server), but I would try disabling the overlay.

Special Eddy původně napsal:

I've changed it in NVIDIA control panel so GTA uses the graphics card

Desktops don't have switchable graphics, so is this a laptop? And is your CPU perhaps an i7-7500U and not a desktop i5-7500?

Because that would explain the 100% CPU usage. The U in i7-7500U stands for dUal core. It's a slow-ish 2core/4thread CPU and not really very good for GTAV by itself, let alone trying to do other things at the same time.

[Special Eddy]

Ancient původně napsal:

Special Eddy původně napsal:

Somehow, my task manager states that whenever GTA is running and is the focused window, my CPU is at 100% usage but my GPU rarely reaches 9% usage.

TM and Windows Game Bar are and have been broken/inaccurate for GPU usage monitoring for a long time. Use literally anything else (Afterburner/Precision/HWMonitor/HWInfo/etc.)

As to discord, I don't use it much anymore (run my own TS server), but I would try disabling the overlay.

Special Eddy původně napsal:

I've changed it in NVIDIA control panel so GTA uses the graphics card

Desktops don't have switchable graphics, so is this a laptop? And is your CPU perhaps an i7-7500U and not a desktop i5-7500?

Because that would explain the 100% CPU usage. The U in i7-7500U stands for dUal core. It's a slow-ish 2core/4thread CPU and not really very good for GTAV by itself, let alone trying to do other things at the same time.

I'll see what MSI Afterburner says and yes it is an i5-7500; I built my desktop myself. I also just noticed this but I said I had 8GB of RAM when I actually have 12 GB (8x1 & 4x1), I must of had a stoke.

[Special Eddy]

Ancient původně napsal:

TM and Windows Game Bar are and have been broken/inaccurate for GPU usage monitoring for a long time. Use literally anything else (Afterburner/Precision/HWMonitor/HWInfo/etc.)

As to discord, I don't use it much anymore (run my own TS server), but I would try disabling the overlay.

So after testing it with MSI Afterburner, my CPU still stays at 100% usage and only dips down to mid-90s when I'm outside the city. My GPU on the other hand barely crosses the 50% usage threshold.

I'm not running any overlay so I don't know what I could do.

[Special Eddy]

!POSSIBLE SOLUTION!

For anyone seeing this in the future, I've possibly found a solution for our current problem.

By setting GTA V to low priority in task manager, it allows you to set discord to high priority and use up any resources left. Discord stills cuts in and out a little bit but you at least are not stuck with no communication.

Hope this helps somebody but if anyone else could find a proper fix, that would be fantastic.